TGJ 3O – Period 2

Thursday, May 26

TGJ 3O – End Task options

Create a portfolio of your 9 best photos from the semester. Photos are printed on 11×17 inch paper, and arranged in an aesthetically pleasing fashion. 3 photos must have annotations describing the technical and artistic aspects of each photo. These projects will be displayed in the hallways of DHS as they get completed.

Create a new display of 4-6 photos. Photos should try to follow a central theme for example – panning photos, landscape scenery photos, light painting photos, slow shutter speed photos, edited photos, astrophotography photos, sports photos, fishing photos, child photos. These photos must be taken between Thursday, May 26 and Monday, June 13. Photos are to be printed off on 11×17 inch paper and compiled in an aesthetically pleasing manner, ready to hang on the hallways of DHS.

Find/ Research 10 historic photos that you feel should be digitized. Photos should be at least 10 years old. Photos will be scanned at high resolution. All 10 photos are to be compiled in an album on flickr, and 5 of the best photos are to be printed out and displayed in an aesthetically pleasing manner. Each photo should have at least a 1 sentence caption.

Create a lip dub video with as many/ few people as possible.

Open to other ideas – I don’t want you leaving this class saying “I really wish I could have….”

Wednesday, April 27, 2016 –

Today, you will start on your major video project for the year. This project should incorportate the technical skills you have acquired using the different cameras in the room, editing skills you have acquired, as well as your creativity and eye for design.

The parameters for this project are :

2-10 minutes in length.

Must have introductory text and conclusion text

Must be polished, all footage included should “fit”

Potential ideas for this include :

A video that contains every (student or teacher or custodian or EA) in the school.

Choose one of the four website platforms you have familiarized yourself with over the last week – Google sites, Wix, WordPress or Blogger.

You may either create a new website or continue with one you have already started. When naming the website, as well as picking the URL for the site, keep in mind that a good website name should be easy to remember, and easy to identify.

The front page of your website should be welcoming, and make sense to the viewer as they see it. By the end of the week, the front page should have at least 3 posts on it. The first post you will write today, and it will cover the following :

Explain why you chose the name for the website you did,

Explain why you chose the platform that you did,

explain what you plan to put on the website.

You are to create at least 4 distinct pages within your website – 4 pages that are navigated to beyond the front page. 1 of these pages must feature your own content (photos with captions or writing), 1 page must contain a list of at least 10 links with annotations, and the content from the other 2 pages will be taken from other sources on the internet (wikipedia, for example.) If you are taking content from elsewhere on the internet, you must reference the source.

Overall, the finished product website must look polished. There should be no place on the site where there is place holder text.

Themes, header images, fonts and colours should be thought out and aesthetically pleasing.

At the end of this assignment, you will be completing a reflection where you describe the decisions you made, and how you feel about the finished product.

Due – Friday, April 8.

March 21, 2016 –

Today we are getting started with Google Sites – Your own personal web page!

By the end of today, you are to

create a site

post 1 photo to your site

send your site address to paul.darling@k12.kpdsb.ca

March 10, 2016 –

Yesterday, we were introduced to paparazzi. Continue with this assignment if you are caught up with everything else :

Using the internet as a resource, answer the following questions and email to

Your assignment is to create a multiplicity photo with at least 3 clones in it, and upload this photo to flickr.

February 25, 2016 –

Light Painting assignment

After learning the basics of light painting yesterday, you are now assigned the task of creating the 1 best light painting photo you can create. You will take these photos using the SLR cameras in the classroom. Photo will be prepared using photoshop and indesign, and will be printed out on letter sized paper. Each photo will be given a title. From there, the photo will be mounted on a larger piece of paper (we have white paper here in the room), to be displayed in the hallways.

Additionally, students will write a reflection piece of at least 50 words which answers the following : How did this assignment help you understand that the camera is essentially a tool for capturing light? In your reflection, be sure to describe the following :

How many photos you had to take in total, before selecting your two favourite.

Did you have to change lenses or cameras to create a better photo?

Did you have to change light sources to create a better photo?

Where might you use light painting in the future? (Camping/ Weddings/ Car race?)

Your finished product should be aesthetically pleasing and will be mounted in the hallway of the school. We will have 4 full days to work on this from now until end of class on Wednesday, March 2.

February 24, 2016 –

Begin today by exploring the relationship between ISO, Shutter Speed and Aperature using the camera simulator (5 minutes)

By the end of today, you should have 1 photo uploaded to your flickr account with a watermark on it.

Tutorial : https://blog.udemy.com/photoshop-watermark/

February 19, 2016
Today, your task is to do the following:
1. At this point, you should have at least 2 albums on flickr. Navigate your way through flickr and create a gallery called “my favourite shots.” After you have done this, choose 1 photo from each of your albums that would be suitable for the ‘my favourite shots’ gallery.
2. Customize your flickr account – add a cover image, change your ‘buddy icon’ (profile picture)
3. Make an effort to add as many classmates as possible as contacts on flickr. Review some of your classmates photos and favourite, if appropriate.
4. Review past assignments on the website and complete as necessary. If you are completely finish, you are to search youtube for clever, low budget photogrpahy ideas. Make note of any you would like to try by sending the link to paul.darling@k12.kpdsb.ca.

**student Lauren Murray is to try logging in to a machine she has never logged in to before, to see if she has a Z: drive.
February 12, 2016 – Today we will work with Adobe Indesign for the first time.

The biggest thing you need to remember with Adobe Indesign is that you are working with a canvas, and you may place photos on that canvas. The command for place is ctrl + D.

Using Adobe Indesign, Create a valentine of your choice. Export this as a .JPG from Indesign and post to your flickr account.

February 10, 2016 –

Today, we are looking at the different social media platforms that are popular currently. These include :

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

Snapchat

Google Plus

Youtube

Flickr

For each of these platforms, you are to determine the following :

Date created/ Made available publicly

Creators (name, age, education)

1-2 sentance explanation of what it “does”

Number of users in first year

Number of users currently – global

Rank in list of most popular websites

Extreme numbers – Most viewed video, Most friends, Most shares etc.

You are to compile this information as a table, created in Microsoft Word. Create a table which has 3 social media platforms on the left hand side, and the criteria across the top. When complete, save the table as a .jpg and post to your flickr account. Ensure that the resolution is as high as possible.

February 9, 2016 –

Today, continuing with the theme of ‘The medium is the message,’ you are to do the following 2 tasks :

1. Find a relevant news article that illustrates the point ‘the medium is the message’. Copy the link to the article and write a short reflection of why you feel the article is relevant.

2. Explain, in your own words, what you think ‘the medium is the message’ means. This should be a minimum 3 sentances.

Answer both of these questions and email to paul.darling@k12.kpdsb.ca

When complete, you are to continue working on unfinished assignments.

February 8, 2016 –

Today, we are exploring the concept of “the medium is the message”

After thinking about this with your seat partner, describe the following :

2 situations where a message would be significantly changed, if it were changed between mediums.

2 situations where you have seen the wrong message being chosen for a medium.

We will discuss these before the end of class.

February 4, 2016 –

Today you are to apply your knowledge of pixels to create your first photoshop work. The emphasis on this will be the resolution of the images you are using.

using a google image search or flickr, you are to find 13 photos following a theme that you will be combining into 1 image.

Save all of these images into a folder named “february 4” on your z: drive.

Using photoshop, create a new canvas with the size of 900 px x 900 px with a resolution of 300 pixels per inch.

Open one of your photos and crop it to a size of 300 px x 300 px with a resolution of 300 pixels per inch.

select and drag this image on to your new canvas., repeat for 7 more images.

crop an image to be 300 pixels tall and 60 pixels wide. Use this image to begin filling in the middle of your image. repeat with your last 4 images.

flatten this image, save as a .jpg and post to your flickr account.

If you have time, save this image to a usb drive and print on the classroom printer.

The objective of this assignment is to work with and manipulate 13 different images to create a high resolution final image that displays no pixellation on screen or in print (paper).

February 3, 2016 –

Today we will look at pixels and image sizes. By the end of this lesson, you should be able to describe the following :

What is a pixel?

What is a megapixel?

What is resolution?

What is the standard resolution of an image for print?

What is the standard resolution of an image for web (screen)?

What is the resolution of the camera of an iphone 4? 5s? 6s?

What is meant when we hear 720p or 1080p in terms of video resolution?

We will be taking up this information at the end of the class, and we will create a poster with all of this information on it.

February 2, 2016

Today, you are to look at the flickr 20 under 20. In order to find this, go to your flickr account. On the top menu bar, you will see the option Explore —> 20 under 20.

Look at the galleries of at least 10 of the photographers.

When you are satisfied with your browsing of the galleries, send me an email with the following points to paul.darling@k12.kpdsb.ca

Who was your favourite photographer? Why?

What differences did you notice between these photographers’ work and your own?

What are some features that you like seeing in a photo?

Download 1 of your favourite photos and attach it to this email. Add a brief explanation as to why this was your favourite.

Favourite 3 or more of the photos you come accross (hit the “star” icon)

Send all of this as an email to paul.darling@k12.kpdsb.ca

In addition, you are to complete all of the assigned work from yesterday.

If you have time at the end of class, connect with as many classmates as possible on flickr, by finding them and following them.

February 1, 2016

Hello and welcome to your first day of communications technology.

Today, you will have 4 tasks to start with.

First – Create a flickr account. You can get started at www.flickr.com